I'd love to see synthetic diamonds break into the jewelry market in a significant way I'd prefer to see people stop putting this shitty brittle piece of carbon on a pedestal
THANK YOU like I love diamonds as much as any super shiny gemstone but like. There's so much stuff that's both less likely to shatter if dropped and actually rarer available out there.
They're just carbon, you put a tiny piece of diamond in a carbon-rich environment and add the right kind of energy and you can grow good-sized crystals really quickly
we've been able to do this for about sixty years, but it's just in the past couple of decades that we've got the process down well enough to make jewelry-quality diamonds
but a lot of the hype around them is the result of some very calculated marketing moves and there's no good reason why they should be more highly valued than a lot of other gemstones
it makes me think of this sitcom I saw a while back, where this woman got an engagement ring and said 'it is diamon and it can cut glass' as she smashed it against the wall- but it broke because she mis
whereas corundum - which is the mineral that sapphires and rubies are gem-quality varieties of - has a crystal structure that doesn't have the same kind of planes of cleavage
So Diamonds are a pokemon shot with one good IV and the only reason it is considered so much because it is like that stupid game cafe pokemon thing. You work hard to get it, but
I distinctly recall reading one of the Anne Shirley books where she refuses a diamond wedding ring because she never got over the disappointment of them not being purple
(I've also heard that diamond engagement rings started getting really popular about the time it stopped being legal for a woman to sue her ex-fiance for breaking off the engagement)
"once we make it public that we intend to marry, everyone's going to assume we're Totally Doing It anyway so if you do fuck off it's going to be harder for me to make another good match"
which makes me think of that one analysis of Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend when they mentioned that Diamonds would always be a source of income for women
to me most gemstones are boring besides the oh look it sparkles at a jewlery booth thing and then walking off.stop thinking you're worth something and go do something useful
imma learning a lotwhich makes me think of that one analysis of Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend when they mentioned that Diamonds would always be a source of income for womenthat's the point of the song yes'sex is grand, but bitch better give u money for when ur old and wrinkly'i never knew there was so much behind diamonds historically and such